I have just come across a really neat little desktop program to use for writing a post and publishing directly to your blog. No more logging in and editing in a restrictive editor.
The program is called Blogdesk and it is a free download. You can read about it and download the program from www.blogdesk.org
I'm really impressed with it and I am using it now. I just noticed it has automatically made the domain address above a live link too. It also has an in build image management program to insert, edit and alter pictures in your blog posts.
What a cracking little program. I'm really pleased to have discovered this one. Did I mention that it is FREE? A really handy little program that will save you lots of time writing and publishing your blog posts. Thoroughly recommended.
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You will come across the term 'Sales Funnel' quite often in internet marketing guides and discussions. It describes the planned process of converting a visitor to a buyer by gently guiding them down a path from 'interested' to, 'I want this'
The idea is simple to understand but putting it into practice is a little trickier. It's as though you were to take the hand of a visitor to your website and take them around your site showing what it has to offer and slowly but surely persuading them that they need what you have to offer.
Sometimes it is done very blatently and you feel the salesman pushing you around and most of us object to that. Other times it is done more subtley and while we may be aware it is happening we don't mind because we are happy to be guided along the process.
The best sales funnel is one that convinces the customer. Not just pushing them to buy something but rather, converting them to become a believer in what you have to offer. If they give you good things you will feel that here is someone who has something valuable and if they are prepared to give you this for free, how much more would you get if you were to pay them money.
I came across what I think is one of the best sales funnels I have seen for a while, the other day. This is a site where if you sign up for their newsletter you get a report that is worth more than many paid courses, for free. I reccommend you go and sign up just to read the report as I am sure you will learn a lot about sales funnels and the selling process.
Yes, you will be offered one time offers and other things and they all seem to be offer great value and opportunities to make money in the future but, even if you don't want to spend a single penny, there is still a great deal of value here.
Yes, I may make a commission if you go there, sign up and eventually spend any money but regardless of that, you need to read this report. Seriously. I was blown away by the information contained in this free report and I have no doubt you will be too.
You don't have to spend any money at all and you will learn a lot about sales funnels and the art of persuasion so take a look and if you decide it is not for you it has cost you nothing. Click the image below to find out more.
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I just wanted to do a quick update to my previous post about getting to number one in google. The unusual phrase I used meant that It did in fact go straight to the number one position for a search on that phrase and it did that within a few minutes of being published on his blog.
It wa first out of no less than around 80,000,000 pages!
Now that does sound pretty impressive and it is exactly the sort of claim made by people who are selling courses and guides to building a successful online empire but you need to look a little more closely at what this result really means.
It actually means nothing. If you do a search on the same phrase but this time do the search with the phrase in quotes, which means the search is for that exact phrase with the words in that order, there are currently just two results and both refer to my page on this site.
What happened to the other 80 million results? They were pages that had some or all of the words I was searching for but not necessarily in the right order nor in one group. They were pages that had some of the words somewhere on the page.
So look carefully when you see claims made about how someone got to number one in the search engines and how they could do the same for you if you give them some money. Things are not always as they seem.
I don't want to give the impression that all guides to being successful are a sham because they are not but do take care to examine any claims of success with results in the search engines to see how much of a challenge they really are.
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